10 Month Old Baby Schedule

10 month old’s sleep

At this age, most 10 month olds can sleep through the night, without a feeding, and take two naps for a total of 2 to 2 1/2 hours per day plus 11-12 hours at night. A very small percentage transition to one nap as early as 10 months, but not many, so assume 2 naps unless you are certain. Most babies get very very overtired and sleep can spiral out of control, so I always recommend keeping two naps as long as possible as the average age to transition to one nap is 15-18 months. If you’re having trouble with naps, you might be interested in helping your baby nap.

Although many babies can go all night without a single feeding, in my experience, some do better with one feeding after 4 or 5 a.m. and sleep longer than not feed and get an early wake-time. I would need to know your specific situation to make a recommendation, but just recognize that all babies are different. By this age I would not expect more than 1 feeding, typically, if any at all. I would recommend at least an attempt at night-weaning because it is a chicken and egg problem. It’s hard to encourage more eating during the day when he is eating at night and it’s hard to discourage eating at night when he isn’t eating more during the day.

All babies vary, but here are some rough schedules you can use to make your own for your unique baby. I should warn you that I am in the camp that breast milk or formula should be the primary nutrition for the first year and solids come secondary. Below are the amounts we recommend. For more information on starting your baby on solid food, visit our sister site, Your Baby’s Start To Solid Foods. It includes recommendations about how and when to start solids, as well as helpful information on food allergies, recommended products, baby-friendly recipes, and more.

Note: At 10 months, sometimes you notice a sharp increase in appetite (no doubt partially due to activity levels with crawling and possibly cruising), so what’s different about the 9 month schedule is the addition of another snack, some of the serving sizes and the # of servings.

The first schedule is what I call a “staggered” approach. My first son did better nursing fully and then having solids a bit in between nursing sessions. He was a little hungry but not famished. He just didn’t do well with stopping nursing mid-way to eat solids.

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Faiza Habibsays

Hiya my huby n i work from home in mornings. N huby works till late night on another job. So it suits us if our 10 month old baby sleep till 10 or 11. We have been putting him to bed late. Sometime upto midnight. N he wakes up arround 9 10. N takes 3 naps during day. Last one arround 6 to 9pm. Then he sleeps at midnight again. I want to kbow if its unhealthy. As he is taking enough gours of sleep. N we keep room pitch dark till he sléps. Kindly share advise n experience if anyone else has done this. Thanks

Hi Faiza,
Thank you for visiting The Baby Sleep Site! In general, as long as your baby is getting enough sleep and is growing well and happy, you will be fine 🙂 Many families we’ve worked with have had to adapt the suggested schedule to work with their work schedules, traveling, etc., and almost anything can work as long as the baby has enough night sleep and is napping well. We do have a chart to help you figure out if he’s getting enough sleep here: https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-sleep-needs/baby-toddler-bedtime-chart/
(Ignore the “Bedtimes” column and just look at the “Total sleep hours”.)
I hope this helps, but please let us know if you have any other questions!

Hi there, I absolutely loved this article, I’m currently trying to remove my 10month old’s feed to sleep association, it’s definitely improving. Thank you for the recommended servings and the example schedules, I will be using them. I’m from Australia so you can know that your article has come over here. There is a lot of differing info out there even between doctors.

Hi @Lisa – Thank you for writing! We are SO happy to hear that our resources and information have been helpful for your family! Thank you again for taking the time to let us know, and we wish you all the best!

Hi there, my 10months only nap for 30mins every nap since birth. I tried gentle tap to encourage falling back asleep but he refuses.
We have been sleep training him and he has no problem falling asleep on his own. But keep waking up at night every 2-3hours to feed.
What would be the best thing to do?

Hi @Yolinda Indrawan, I’m so sorry to hear that you’ve been struggling with short naps and frequent wake ups from your son. We would love to help. You may want to download our free guide with tips to help your baby sleep through the night: https://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-through-night-free-ebook/
I do think since you’re struggling with naps and nights that you would also benefit from working with a trained sleep consultant who can look at a full sleep history of your child and create a step by step plan of action to you, according to what your priority list of goals would be as well. If you’re interested, we have an amazing team that can help and you can see the different options to work with them here: https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-toddler-sleep-consulting-services/
If you’re struggling with finding the best package for your situation, please just email us directly at contact@babysleepsite.com and we would love to help you from there. Hang in there!